Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Fernando Assis Garcia (associate professor) 

Departament of Applied Physics

Universidade of Sao Paulo

Contact: fgarcia-at-if.usp.br

Education

2007-2010   Doctor of sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

2005-2007   Master in Physics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil 

2001-2004   Bachelor of Physics,  Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

Professional experience

2023 - present PostdoctoralSchoolar, Ames National Laboratory/Iowa State University - AMES/United States

2022 - present  (on leave) Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics - University of São Paulo 

2014 –2022   Assistant professor, Department of Applied Physics - University of São Paulo 

2012 – 2014  Pos-doc researcher. Fellowship from FAPESP.  Department of Applied Physics - IFGW/UNICAMP 

2011 - 2012  Pos-doc researcher. Fellowship from the Max Planck Society.  Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids - MPI - CPFS , Dresden/Germany. 

Selected publications (2019 - 2023) (full list on arxivs)

1. Marli R Cantarino, Kevin R Pakuszewski, Björn Salzmann, Pedro HA Moya, Wagner R da Silva Neto, Gabriel S Freitas, Pascoal G Pagliuso, Walber H Brito, Claude Monney, C Adriano, Fernando A Garcia, "Incoherent electronic band states in Mn-substituted BaFe2As2", Physical Review B, 108, 24, 245124 (2023).           

2.  Juliana G. de Abrantes, Marli R. Cantarino, Wagner R. da Silva Neto, Victória V. Freire, Alvaro G. Figueiredo, Tarsis M. Germano, Bassim Mounssef, Jr., Eduardo M. Bittar, Andreas Leithe-Jasper, and Fernando A. Garcia - “Vibrational and structural properties of the RFe4Sb12  ( R= Na, K ,Ca , Sr, Ba ) filled skutterudites”, Physical Review Materials 6, 085403 (2022). 

3.  A. G. de Figueiredo, M. R. Cantarino, W. R. da Silva Neto, K. R. Pakuszewski, R. Grossi, D. S. Christovam, J. C. Souza, M. M. Piva, G. S. Freitas, P. G. Pagliuso, C. Adriano, F. A. Garcia - "Orbital localization and the role of the Fe and As 4p orbitals in BaFe2As2  probed by XANES", Physical Review B 105, 045130 (2022).

4. Fernando A. Garcia, Oleh Ivashko, Daniel E. McNally, Lakshmi Das, Mario M. Piva, Cris Adriano, Pascoal G. Pagliuso, Johan Chang, Thorsten Schmitt, Claude Monney - “Anisotropic magnetic excitations and incipient Néel order in Ba(Fe1−xMnx)2As2”, Physical Review B 99, 115118 (2019). 

5. M. R. Cantarino, R. P. Amaral, R. S. Freitas, J. C. R. Araújo, R. Lora-Serrano, H. Luetkens, C. Baines, S. Bräuninger, V. Grinenko, R. Sarkar, H. H. Klauss, E. C. Andrade, and F. A. Garcia - “Dynamic magnetism in the disordered hexagonal double perovskite BaTi1/2Mn1/2O3”, Physical Review B 99, 054412 (2019). 

Invited talks (2019-2023)

• 1.  May, 2023: “Incoherent electronic band state in Mn substituted BaFe2As2”, Condensed Matter Physics  Seminar – Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.

  2. August, 2021: “Spin excitations and electronic structure in the BaFe2As2 family of materials”,  Workshop on New Horizons in Quantum Correlated Materials, ICTP-SAIFR,  Sao Pualo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.  

  3. November, 2020: “Local electronic structure of itinerant magnets" , Encontro de Outono da SBF 2020,  On-line

Research interests

1.  X ray spectroscopy of quantum materials

2. Unconventional supercondutors

3. Charge and spin density waves

4. Magnetic frustration

5. Thermoelectric materials

Techniques

1.  X-ray and Photoemission Spectroscopy 

   1. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS)

   2. Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS)

   3. Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)

2.  X-ray diffraction 

3.  Multiple scattering theory calculations

4.  Multiconfigurational quantum chemistry calculations